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Chicago examiner * * â€¢ vol xvi no 45 a m tuesday Chicago pebeuaky 12 1918 tuesday heeiÂ»tÂ«red t>t3tr<t7 t<wr r'ttttftcj in Chicago elsewhere o s pitjnt offlec " ulyjhl ivv u kjvjjx 1 o asd stj bubb3 three cents wilson opens door to peace russians quit war joy fills germany orders armies disbanded leav ing roumania teutons lone opponent on eastern front no peace treaty yet signed but trotsky plans trade resump tion joy in central powers london feb 11 â€” the eastern front has passed out of exist ence in the war between the kntente and the teutonic powers koumania alone is left to fight jermnny and austria in the east and she is completely cut off from al iied help a brest-litovsk dispatch formally announced to-day that the head of the russian peace delegation had proclaimed hostilities against the cen tral powers at an end and had or dered complete demobilization of the russian armies on all fronts german cities hung with bunting an amsterdam dispatch says there is great enthusiasm in ger many over the reported end of the state of war between the central powers and russia cities every where are beflagged and there is much rejoicing over trotsky's un conditional surrender it has been arranged that the central economic commission now in petrograd shall settle the details of the resumption of relations be i.ween russia and the central pow ers thf brest-litovsk announcement eaid no treaty of peace would be signed by russia but a later dis patch quoted foreign minister trot sky as saying russia now felt obliged to sign a separate peace expect formal treaty to be signed soon this would indicate that russia soon may ratify her withdrawal by signing a formal peace treaty with the central powers the announcement of russia's ac tion is dated at brest-litovsk sun day its text follows the president of the russian delegation at sunday's sitting stated that while russia was de sisting from signing a formal peace treaty it declared the state of war to be ended with germany austria hungary turkey and bulgaria simultaneously giving orders for ompleli demobilization of russian forces on all fronts this formal announcement was con lrmed this evening by a german government radio message received here [ j etrogrÂ«d dispatches to-day report d that foreign minister trotsky had already arranged with the central powers to re-establish full consular nd economic relations by direct in tercourse this probably will be accomplished he dispatch stated with the help of ihe various teutonic commissions noiv in petrograd fear german drive on roumania no details in regard to the ger man ultimatum to roumania last wednesday have been received here j the ultimatum is believed to have â– ontained a veiled threat of an of fensive it demands that roumania begin peace parleys within four days ncwu is lacking also concerning de velopments in the situation since the expiration of the ultimatum saturday the resignation of the roumanian rabinet friday was due to a dif ference of opinion between the con servative and liberal branches the king decided to form a non-4 partisan government under the lead i rship of gen averesco former min-1 inter of war and lately commander u the dobrudja armies * england's war aims out today loxdox feb 11 â€” premier lloyd george will address parliament on britain's peace terms when it reassembles to morrow after a five-day recess it is generally believed he is expected to refer to the recent supreme war council at versailles but will refuse it is understood to detail its decisions the pacifists are prepared to assail the recent statement of the supreme council as reaffirmation of the lloyd george knockout policy the conservatives also may support col repington's charge that the premier is usurp ing the military's power in stra tegical matter democrats aid suffrage cause national party indorses move to urge amendment in the senate washington feb 11 â€” by a vote of five to two the executive com mittee of the democratic national committee to-night formally indorsed the woman suffrage constitutional amendment and agreed to urge its prompt passage by the senate it has passed the house the vote of the subcommittee fol lowed a referendum of the total mem bership of the national committee representing 48 states the vote or the committee was 28 to 14 in favor of the amendment with six still to be heard from those supporting the resolution were vance c mccormick chairman homer s cummings connecticut vice chairman a mitchell palmer pennsylvania senator a a jones new mexico and isidore b dock weiler california those opposing were representative carter glass of virginia and representative cordell hull of tennessee carnegie sex-partner 65 weds singer here daniel m clemson former partner of andrew carnegie and miss chris tine miller concert contralto were married in Chicago yesterday by the rev charles f wishart in the sec ond presbyterian church the couple will honeymoon at the congress they came from pittsburgh to avoid publicity mr clemson a widower two years is 65 his bride less than half his age a 500,000 home awaits her in pittsburgh mrs hoyne breaks leg while skating mrs maclay hoyne wife of the state's attorney broke her right leg sunday night when she fell on the ice at the white city rink she was skating with her sons thomas m and francis believing the injury only a sprain they drove with her to the home of dr archibald hoyne her brother-in-law he set the bone and mrs hoyne was taken home mrs vanderbilt gets in coal line for card nkivport 1 1 feb 11 mrs french vanderbilt stood in line with hundreds of other residents at the office of the fuel administration seeking cards to obtain quarter-ton portions of coal mrs vanderbllt's magnificent home harbor view was without fuel of any kind barry to command first draft division maj gen thomas 11 13 irry accord ing to trustworthy reports yesterday kill lead the first division of drafted bfien to france gen barry returned it'o Chicago last night if he is hosen troops now at camp grant probably will comprise the division | landis rules pack files are outlaw i terms contested papers as un lawful as counterfeit mold in ordering them given to u s federal counsel forbidden to peruse records pending ap peal before judge baker today federal judge landls yesterday ruled that the packers papers in the vaults of their attorney henry veeder were outlaw property hence they were no more immune to seizure i by government authorities than were the mold and plate of the counter feiter having rendered this decision the judge denied the motion of mr veeder's attorneys to quash the fed eral search warrant under which tho papers were seized grants an apfeax but he granted the defendants an appeal to the united states circuit court of appeals the appeal will be made before judge francis e baker at 10 o'clock this morning meantime the vault in veeder's office was ordered under close guard by judge landis eight united states deputy marshals will maintain mi nute vigilance over it pending the upper court's decision description held adequate judge landis brought to light the inside facts in the government's charges at the hearing he answered their contention that insufficient de scriptions of the seized papers had been cited in the search warrant and when john j healy and el wood godman attorneys for veeder argued that the court lacked ade quate cause in authorizing the search the judge answered hugh mclsaac examiner makes the square definite assertion as to false entries and changes in the rec ords he makes the definite charge of hoarding foodstuffs admits warrant is broad the veeder attorneys advanced the claim that many papers seized were irrelevant to the case to this judge landis replied i will agree that more things have been called for in this warrant than in all my experience but consider ing the extent of the illegal activi ties alleged it doubtless was neces sary to appropriate a large mass of documentary evidence mr veeder claims that a corpora tion cannot be imprisoned then can a man by incorporating himself claim immunity from search warrant or keep himself out of jail continues i w w case although the search of i w w headquarters and seizure of papers was conducted under a warrant iden tical with that in the veeder case judge landis said he was not pre pared to render a decision on the question of its validity he announced he desired to ques tion the government authorities fur ther mrs leeds is wed to greek prince report london feb 12 â€” mrs william b leeds wealthy american widow and prince christopher of greece have been quietly married in switzerland where mrs leeds has been stopping with an invalid son says the daily sketch mie leods is the widow of william b leeds a leader in the tin plate in dustry from whom she inherited 14 000,000 prince christopher is the youngest brother of constantino de posed king of greece roosevelt's doctors report a setback new york feb 11 â€” col roose velt's physician's to-night issued a bulletin which said col roosevelt's condition haa not materially changed since yes terdav there was a slight set full text of president's answer to austro-german peace terms tifashington feb 11 the full text of president wilson's speech to congress answering the ' * recent declaration of chancellor von hertling of germany and premier czernin of a ustria follows gentlemen of the congress on the bth of january i had the honor of addressing you on the objects of the war as our people conceive them the prime minister of great britain had spoken in similar terms on the sth of january to these addresses the german chancellor replied on the 24th and count czernin for austria on the same day it is gratifying to have our desire s ( o promptly realized that all ex changes of views on this great matter should be made in the hearing of all the world count czernin's reply which is directed chiefly to my own address on the bth of january is uttered in a very fiendly tone he finds in my statement a sufficiently encouraging ap proach to the views of his own government to justify him in believing that it furnishes a basis for a more detailed discussion of purposes by the two governments he is represented to have intimated that the views he was expressing had been communicated to me beforehand and that i was aware of them at the time he was offering them ; but in this i am sure he was misunderstood i had received no intimation of what he intended to say there was of course no reason why he should communicate privately with me i am quite content to be one of his public audience von hert ling's reply held as vague and confusing count von hertling's reply is i must say very vague and very confusing it is full of equivocal phrases and leads it is not clear where but it is certainly ia a very different tone from that of count czernin and apparently of an opposite purpose it confirms i am sorry to say rather than removes the unfortunate impression made by what we had learned of the conferences at brest litovsk his discussion and acceptance of our general principles lead nim to no practical conclusions he refuses to apply them o the sub stantive items which must constitute the body of any final settlement he is jealous of international action and of international counsel he accepts he says the principle of public diplomacy but he appears to insist that it be confined at any rate in this case to gen eralities and that the several particular questions of territory and sovereignty the several questions upon whose settlement must depend the acceptance of peace by the twenty-three states now engaged in the war must be discussed and settled not in general council but sev erally by the nations most immediately concerned by interest or neighborhood differ on freedom of seas and on conquest provinces he agrees that the seas should be free but looks askance at any limitation to that freedom by international action in the interest of the common order he would without reserve be glad to see economic barriers removed between nation and nation for that could in no way impede the ambitions of the military party with whom he seems con strained to keep on terms neither does he raise objection to a limitation of armaments that matter will bo settled of itself he thinks by the economic con ditions which must follow the war but the german colonies he de mands must be returned without debate he will discuss with no one but the representatives of russia what disposition shall be made of the peoples and the lands of the baltic provinces with no one but the government of france the con ditions under which french territory shall be evacuated and only with austria what shall be done with poland in the determination of all questions affecting the baltic states he defers as i understand him to austria and turkey and with regard to the agreements to be entered into concerning the non turkish peoples of the present ottoman empire to the turkish au thorities themselves after a settlement all around effected in this fashion by individual barter and concession he would have no objection if i correctly in terpret his statement to a league of nations which would undertake to hold the new balance of power steady against external disturbances takes firm stand against any barter and concession it must be evident to every one who understands what this war has wrought in the opinion and temper of the world that no general peace no peace worth the infinite sacrifices of these years of tragical suffering can possibly be arrived at in any such fashion the method the german chancellor proposes is tfie method of the congress of vienna we cannot and will not return to that what is at stake now is the peace of the world what we are striving for is a new international order based upon broad and uni versal principles of right and justice â€” no mere peace of shreds and patches is it possible that count von hertling does not see that does not grasp it is in fact living in his thought in a world dead and gone has he utterly forgotten the reichstag resolutions of the 19th of july or does he deliberately ignore them they spoke of the conditions of a general peace not of national aggrandizement or of arrangements between state and state the peace of the world depends upon the just settlement of each of the several problems to which i adverted in my recent address to the congress 1 of course do not mean that the peace of the world de pends upon the acceptance of any particular set of suggestions as to the way in which those problems are to be dealt with i mean only that these problerls each and all affect the whole world that unless they are dealt wita in a spirit of unselfish and unbiased justice with a view to the wishes the natural connections the racial aspirations the security and peace of mind of the peoples involved no permanent peace will have been attained they cannot be discussed separately or in corners none of them constitutes a private or separate interest from which the opinion of the world may be shut out whatever affects the peace affects man kind and nothing settled by military force if settled wrong is settled at all it will presently have to be reopened is count von hertling not aware that he is speaking in the court of mankind that all the awakened nations of the world now sit in judgment on what every public man of whatever nation may say on the issues of a conflict which haa spread to every region of the world the reichstag resolutions of july themselves frankly accepted the decisions of that court there shall be no annexations no contribu tions no punitive damages peoples are not to be handed about from one sovereignty to an other by an international conference or an understanding between rivals and antagonists national aspirations must be respected peo ples may not be dominated and governed only by their own consent ' all parties in war must join in settlement of issues self-destruction is not a mere phrase it is an imperative prin ciple of action which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril ave cannot have general peace for the asking or by the mere ar rangements of a peace conference it cannot be pieced together out of individual understandings between powerful states all the parties to this war must join in the settlement of every issue anywhere involved in it because what we are asking is a peace that we can all unite to guarantee and maintain and every item of it must be submitted to the common judgment whether it be right and fair an act of justice rather than a bargaitn between sovereigns the united states has no desire to interfere in european affairs or to act as arbiter in european territorial disputes she would dis liain to take advantage of any internal weakness or disorder to impose her own will upon another people she is quite ready to be shown that the settlements she has suggested are not the best or the more en during they are only her own provisional sketch of principles and of the way in which they should be applied but she entered this war because she was made a partner whether she would or not in the sufferings and indignities inflicted by the military masters of germany against the peace and security of man kind and the conditions of peace will touch her as nearly as they will touch any other nation to which is intrusted a leading part in the maintenance of civilization she cannot see her way to peace until the causes of this war are removed its renewal rendered as nearly as may be impossible this war had its roots in the disregard of the rights of small nations and of nationalities which lacked the union and the force to make good their claim to determine their own allegiances and their own forms of political life covenants must now be entered into which will render such things impossible for the future and those covenants must be backed by the united force of all nations that love justice and are willing to main tain it at any cost if territorial settlements and the political relations of great popu lations which have not the organized power to resist are to be de termined by the contracts of the powerful governments which consider themselves most directly affected as count von hertling proposes why may not economic questions also selfish separate compacts not to be considered it has come about in tÃŸe altered world in which we now fijad our selves that justice and the rights of peoples affect the whole field of international dealing as much as access to raw materials and fair and equal conditions of trade count von hertling wants the essential bases of commercial and industrial life to be safeguarded by common agreement and guarantee but he cannot expect that to be conceded him if the other matters to be determined by the articles of peace are not handled in the same way as items in the final accounting he cannot ask the benefit of common agreement in the one field without according it in the other i take it for granted that he sees that separate and selfish compacts with regard to trade and the essential materials of manufacture would afford no foundation for peace neither he may rest assured will separate and selfish com pacts with regard to provinces and peoples count czernin seems to see the fundamental elements of peace with clear eyes and does not seek to obscure them he sees that an independent poland made up of all the indisputably polish peoples who lie contiguous to one another is a matter of european concern and must of course be conceded and that belgium must be evacuated and restored no matter what sacrifices and concessions that may in volve and that national aspirations must be satisfied even with his own empire in the common interest of europe and mankind if he is silent about questions which touch the interest and pur pose of his allies more nearly than they touch those of austria only it must of course be because he feels constrained i suppose to defer to germany and turkey in the circumstances dependance upon germany limited czernin's attitude seeing and conceding as he does the essential principles involved and the necessity of candidly applying them he naturally feels that austria can respond to the purpose of peace as expressed by the united states with less embarrassment than could germany he would probably have gone much further had it not been for the em barrassments of austria's alliances and of her dependence upon ger many after all the test of whether it is possible for either government to go any further in this comparison of views is simple and obvious the principles to be applied are these first that each part of the final settlement must be based upon the essential justice of that particular cause and upon such adjust ments as are most likely to bring a peace that will be permanent second t-hat peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were mere chattels and reply to czernin invites parley by h h stansbury / i staff correspondent of the Chicago i examiner i ! diplomats say pre-peace period is reached with president's . speech clearing obstacles â€¢ ' early answer expected from the | austrian premier wilson is i willing to discuss principles a n washington feb 11 presij dent wilson's nev peaÂ»^b message to-day vas suin^b marized as to purpose and meaningh by diplomatists and executive offi-t clals of the government as follows the chief executive has re vealed that the pre-peace period of the war has been reached he has answered in friendly voice the . bid for peace directed to washing i ton by count czernin the austrian â– | foreign minister when czernin â– replies another step forward will 1 have been accomplished j the mailed fist with which ger â– many's autocratic policies have been opposed from the beginning " i is buttressed by a renewed an nouncement that the united states is determined to fight until the na j tion's purpose in the war has been / accomplished the kaiser is warned 11 that his spokesmen are thinking in j i a world that is dead " a few obstacles to peace now remain emphasis is given with great clarity to the few obstacles to peace that remain the belligerents of all factions j allies included are told it is their j duty to observe all conciliation con i si6tent with permanent peace j in a restatement of the basic j principles put forward as the only | safe ground for negotiations the ( world is definitely told a general peace erocted on such foundations ; can be discussed any thought even in america or in europe that we are interested in other than the principle of terri torial questions must disappear with the statement the united states has no desire to interfere in european affairs or act as arbiter in european territorial disputes " strategy centers attention on czernin president wilson with splendid and timely strategy is believed to have lifted count czernin into the mos conspicuous political position within the central empires for the tlma being at least the attention of the world will be centered upon the aus trian official clears pathway for open diplomacy the interchange of peace notes in public is unique in the world's his tory it represents the policy of open diplomacy to which president wilson has committed the united i states j austria-hungary under the lead ership of czernin s afforded an op portunity to make peace such as the people of the dual empire are de manding any move in this direction must vitally affect germany 1 at the state department the poki j was made that germany has bi j practli-ntiy ignored by the president's i maneuver it is expected a new voic 1 from within germany will be heart fl like that which is speaking for u tria , the cunning l|i v i tu^^^bk continued on 2 rage 3dcolumn a the weather Chicago and vicinity â€” nnettled and colder tuesday nrf-dnrsdnv probably fair inodernte to fresh northerly winds temperatcre 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